Time management
11 Essential Time Management Tips for Salespeople
How many times have you missed your target by just one sale? One more quick signature and things could have turned out differently. A larger check, more respect from your boss and peers and you’d enjoy that warm, fuzzy, satisfied feeling of finishing the month on a strong note. The key to avoiding the opposite […]
How Much Time Should You Spend Prospecting Sales?
My first sales job was prospecting… exclusively. All day, every day I looked for new clients. Maybe this sounds miserable to some of you, but it gave me an advantage in the long run. Where most people have a lot of different jobs competing for their time, prospecting sales was my only focus. I came […]
Focus on the Sales Activities That Matter
Salespeople will do what they like to do, not what they need to do. If it’s uncomfortable to make cold calls, they’ll find a way to justify doing something else — like sending an email or writing up a proposal. But when you’re focusing on sales activities, you need to dedicate time to the activities […]
How to Close More Deals by Mapping Your Sales Process
Most builders live by the rule “Measure twice. Cut once.” Sure, it takes more work on the front end, but it saves time, money, and frustration for the overall project. It wastes less material and gets better final results. But most builders probably learned this rule the hard way. Early on, they skipped those extra […]
The Most Successful Sales Teams Avoid These Time Management Mistakes
As a salesperson, you have a say in how your day unfolds. But as you balance working in the office with prospecting and helping clients, are you really making the most of your time? Below we’ve listed the most common time management mistakes that salespeople – and sales managers – make. If you want your […]
Decision Fatigue Is Costing Your Reps Sales
We’ve all experienced decision fatigue — when we’ve made so many decisions we can’t make one more. But we’re exhausting ourselves on the wrong decisions, namely, figuring out who to call. If we eliminate all those choices about who to call, we’ll be able to focus our thinking on more important tasks during the day. So how […]
Salespeople: Avoid These Costly Social Networking Mistakes
Staying off social media all day is tough. Checking your news feed is a habit that’s hard to kick. But we all know it impairs work productivity, so when we jump online to check in or check up on what’s going on in the social media world, we tell ourselves, “It’s for work.” Social media […]
How Much Time Your Sales Team Really Loses to Manual Reporting
Hours a week? Sounds crazy, right? But your sales team spends countless hours each week just reporting what they did. We added up some real-time numbers to see how much time you can realistically save with automated reporting. The Salesperson’s Time On a typical day, a salesperson spends about 20 minutes manually entering reports. That’s […]
How to Manage Your Time When Your Schedule is Unpredictable
Unpredictability is part of the beauty of sales. Rather than being cooped up behind a desk, you get to drive around town and meet a variety of people in the process. Each day is different because each day holds new interactions. It’s hard to get bored with a job when no two days look the […]
4 Tasks Your Salespeople Hate (And How to Automate Them)
Let’s be honest: If you’re a high performance sales person, you’re probably not going to do sales activity reports. You want to spend your time selling, not reporting about it. And if you haven’t been productive, you’ll probably just make up the info so you don’t look bad. Managers, you expect your sales team to […]